CLUSTER EMULATOR-GPU-TERMINAL · 26 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2021-03-29
GPU-accelerated terminal emulators
This cluster consists of terminal emulators and multiplexers that leverage GPU acceleration for rendering, several written in Rust or built on engines like Ghostty or GPUI, with a few offering theming, inline graphics, or tiling workspaces. Entries appear sporadically from March 2021 through July 2026, with the largest single month (February 2026) contributing four products; early activity was sparse. Corta leads on traction with 2 GitHub stars, while termy-bin and Contour Terminal Emulator have 0 stars each.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 2 hand-coded · 4 unlabelled
Operator · 6 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 6 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 21darktile0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceGPU-accelerated terminal emulator providing a fast command-line experience for tiling window managers.
- 22limux0★6 mostalelivehand-codedopen sourceA terminal multiplexer and workspace manager using GPU acceleration and Ghostty's rendering, a cmux port.
- 23bcon0★5 moliveopen sourceGPU-accelerated terminal emulator that runs directly on the Linux console for command-line sessions.
- 24xgterm-bin0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal emulator designed for interacting with astronomical image processing and data reduction software.
- 25libtermgl0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceEngine that renders 2D and 3D graphics in the terminal.
- 26alacritty-graphics0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceCross-platform GPU-accelerated terminal emulator that provides a fast and modern command-line interface for users.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.